Fabienne Baider
2021
Baider, Fabienne; Cislaru, Georgeta
Communication et intercompréhension : regards croisés de la pragmatique interculturelle et de la pragmatique contrastive Journal Article
In: Langages, vol. N° 222, no. 2, pp. 7-24, 2021.
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One of our foreign students who says to us “Did you eat rice today? »At the beginning of the meeting and« Take care of me »at the end… How to interpret it? Certainly not (only) from a purely academic and exclusively French-speaking point of view. The opening of linguistics to contextual data, going beyond the relationship between linguistic forms, has encouraged the taking into account in the functioning of language of various so-called external constraints, of which sociolinguistics and pragmatics were among the first to emerge. seize (Gumprez 1996; House 1997). However, if sociolinguistics demonstrates the link between “small-scale interactions” but favors “large-scale sociological effects” (Jacquemet, 2011: 475), pragmatics works more on these small-scale interactions, to understand the mechanisms, even if the social constraints that explain the meaning in context are taken into account (Holmes, 2018: 14). Thus, meaning and intercomprehension in communication constitute major concerns of pragmatics. Since its emergence in the 1960s, pragmatics has focused on the study of discursive practices in context (Birner, 2013: 2) and that of the negotiation of meaning in daily interactions (Thomas, 1995: 2). More precisely defined as “the science of social linguistic behavior in various situational and institutional contexts” (Mey, 2013: 603), pragmatics has looked at interface issues and has thus consolidated itself at the crossroads of several disciplines ( interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology.
Baider, Fabienne; Sini, Lorella
In: Mots, no. 125, pp. 15-34, 2021.
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title = {Le complotisme « transnational » et le discours de haine : le cas de Chypre et de l’Italie“Transnational” conspiracy and hate speech: the case of Cyprus and ItalyConspiracionismo «transnacional» y discurso de odio: el caso de Chipre y de Italia},
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Drawing on two bodies of far-right discourse, we study what discursive strategies are employed to convince of the New World Order, or the Great Replacement, in online debates in Cyprus and Italy. We examine in particular how hate speech underlies this transnational propaganda, with in particular the common topos "foreigners are to be neutralized", and how this topos is declined in metaphors (immigration - invasion - national genocide) and amalgamations (outrageous generalizations ) common to both corpora.
Baider, Fabienne
Joan W. Scott (2005): Parité ! L'universel et la différence des sexes Journal Article
In: Nouvelles Questions Feministes, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 138-141, 2021.
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abstract = {NQF Vol. 26, No 3/2007 | 139. being the only one capable of sublimating sex. Until the year 2000, the motto liberty, equality, fraternity would have been reduced to the word fraternity in the political world. In fact, political brotherhoods, characterized by elitism (mainly privileged individuals graduated from the ENA - National School of Administration) and by sexism (the majority of elected officials are men), monopolize positions of power when they are supposed to represent in an abstract and universal way all the citizens of the nation. This crisis of representation is therefore that of the principle of republican universalism as it was established during the French Revolution, the particular features of the brotherhoods having become the general criteria of representation: anyone who is a citizen who wants to be elected should be a white male who graduated from ENA. Women.},
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NQF Vol. 26, No 3/2007 | 139. being the only one capable of sublimating sex. Until the year 2000, the motto liberty, equality, fraternity would have been reduced to the word fraternity in the political world. In fact, political brotherhoods, characterized by elitism (mainly privileged individuals graduated from the ENA - National School of Administration) and by sexism (the majority of elected officials are men), monopolize positions of power when they are supposed to represent in an abstract and universal way all the citizens of the nation. This crisis of representation is therefore that of the principle of republican universalism as it was established during the French Revolution, the particular features of the brotherhoods having become the general criteria of representation: anyone who is a citizen who wants to be elected should be a white male who graduated from ENA. Women.
Baider, Fabienne; Valetopoulos, Freiderikos; Shiamma, Tatiana
Enseigner 27 langues mais combien de cultures? Book Chapter
In: pp. 191-202, Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes, 2021, ISBN: 978-2-36424-008-7.
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2020
Baider, Fabienne; Constantinou, Maria
Covert hate speech: A contrastive study of Greek and Greek Cypriot online discussions with an emphasis on irony Journal Article Forthcoming
In: Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 262-287, Forthcoming.
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abstract = {Previous research on extremist discourse has revealed that racism is linguistically shaped by its socio-cultural context. For instance, a comparison between Greek Cypriot and Greek online data indicated that the two communities use different linguistic means and strategies to express their aversion to the Other, and that Greek comments are more overtly insulting than Greek Cypriot comments ( Baider and Constantinou 2017a ; Assimakopoulos and Baider 2019 ). The present study focuses on how irony is used to disseminate hate speech, albeit covertly. Our dataset comprises online Greek and Greek Cypriot comments posted on social media and collected during the same period of time (2015- 2016) within an EU project. We use concepts such as verisimilitude and overt untruthfulness to deconstruct ironic racist comments. We conclude that irony in both datasets fulfils three socio-pragmatic functions: it serves to insult or humiliate members of groups targeted for their ethnic identity; it creates or reinforces negative feelings against such groups; it promotes beliefs that could be used to legitimate their mistreatment. Regarding socio-cultural differences, it emerges that the use of the Greek Cypriot vernacular and the appeal to indigenous in-group social stereotypes influence the way irony shapes racist comments and reinforces in-group membership.},
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Previous research on extremist discourse has revealed that racism is linguistically shaped by its socio-cultural context. For instance, a comparison between Greek Cypriot and Greek online data indicated that the two communities use different linguistic means and strategies to express their aversion to the Other, and that Greek comments are more overtly insulting than Greek Cypriot comments ( Baider and Constantinou 2017a ; Assimakopoulos and Baider 2019 ). The present study focuses on how irony is used to disseminate hate speech, albeit covertly. Our dataset comprises online Greek and Greek Cypriot comments posted on social media and collected during the same period of time (2015- 2016) within an EU project. We use concepts such as verisimilitude and overt untruthfulness to deconstruct ironic racist comments. We conclude that irony in both datasets fulfils three socio-pragmatic functions: it serves to insult or humiliate members of groups targeted for their ethnic identity; it creates or reinforces negative feelings against such groups; it promotes beliefs that could be used to legitimate their mistreatment. Regarding socio-cultural differences, it emerges that the use of the Greek Cypriot vernacular and the appeal to indigenous in-group social stereotypes influence the way irony shapes racist comments and reinforces in-group membership.
Baider, Fabienne
Pragmatics lost?: Overview, synthesis and proposition in defining online hate speech Journal Article
In: Pragmatics and Society, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 196-218, 2020.
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This article argues for a definition of online hate speech as a contextualised speech act that is part of a social process of alienation. It suggests that hate speech comes in degrees, is contextual, involves already existing power dynamics, and ‘others’ its targets by creating in/out groups. I first review the various stances towards understanding the phenomenon of online hate speech, including approaches that focus on online hate speech as an interaction shaped by its medium, while also emphasizing the need to consider the role of implicatures in speech acts when defining hate speech. Second, I argue that the relationality of online speech implies that any message is embedded in idiosyncratic socio-cultural norms, and that therefore a ‘one size fits all’ definition of hate speech is elusive. I conclude by suggesting that contextualized hate speech is embedded in a social process of alienation and should be understood as a continuum.
Baider, Fabienne; Millar, Sharon; Assimakopoulos, Stavros
Introduction: Defining, performing and countering hate speech Journal Article
In: Pragmatics and Society, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 171-176, 2020.
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In recent years, there has been increasing political, academic and social concern about the phenomenon of hate speech, especially in online contexts. This interest has been fueled partly by the apparent connection of hate speech with hate crime, the former being said to precede or accompany the latter (Schabas 2000; Tsesis 2002). In its 2017 annual report, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance observed that rising populism in Europe has encouraged a “rhetoric” that “has blended continuously into an actual or constructed hatred of nonnationals or minorities”(ECRI 2018: 8) and underlined the role of social and other media in this process, while in its 2018 annual report, it noted with concern the mainstreaming and normalisation of xenophobic and other prejudicial discourses as well as the negative impacts of fake news and social media echo chambers.
Baider, Fabienne; Cavalla, Cristelle; Cislaru, Georgeta
Apprentissage des langues : Compétence pragmatique, Interculturalité Journal Article
In: Le Langage et l'Homme, no. 551, pp. Le Langage et l'Homme, 2020.
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Since the 1990s, research in language teaching has turned to pragmatics to renew teaching, assessment and learning methods (Fulcher, Davidson, Kemp 2011). Working in pragmatics and language learning means considering language in its discursive, communicative and social dimension, which leads to very quickly integrating the notion of pragmatic competence. At the origin of the field of investigation, they are first of all comparative studies devoted to the differences and similarities between speech acts (Austin 1962) according to languages and cultures, their socio-pragmatic variations and the variation of language. 'interlanguage which have been at the heart of large-scale projects such as the “Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization” (CCSARP) (Blum-Kulka, House, Kasper 1989).
Baider, Fabienne; Cislaru, Georgeta; Claudel, Chantal
Researching Politeness: From the ‘Classical’ Approach to Discourse Analysis and Back Journal Article
In: Corpus Pragmatics, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 259-272, 2020.
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Im/politeness has been subject to societal recommendations for centuries, and to academic studies for decades (Leech 1977; Lakoff 1973; Brown and Levinson 1978), maybe because politeness has been identified “as a key motivation for leaving things unsaid”(Norrick and Illie 2018: 7). Politeness may be roughly defined as a frame of coded communicative norms embodying social conventionality, and impoliteness as a transgressional behaviour. This now well-established field of research provides researchers with a number of tools that have circulated widely in linguistics and beyond (intercultural studies, language teaching and language acquisition, etc.). Different approaches to the topic have been identified along traditional divides in the field of pragmatics between on the one hand ‘Anglo-American and European pragmatics’ and on the other hand ‘micro and macro approaches’(see Haugh and Culpeper.
Baider, Fabienne
In: Lidil, 2020.
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The purpose of this study is to understand how and why certain online exchanges can be described as contemptuous; in other words, we seek to understand how the scornful look typical of the contemptuous person translates verbally in online exchanges. Our data are limited to online threads focused on the 2018 Buzyn lawmaking eleven vaccines compulsory for 2 month old babies, which allow us to study the argumentative strategies in the comments considered contemptuous. We conclude that the preeminent elements qualifying a contemptuous exchange is a polarizing content and a sarcastic tonality, achieved in particular by discrediting strategies on the basis of incompetence and accusations of spreading fake news. Sarcasm in particular is much present in such exchanges and affirms an asymmetrical relation which includes disrespect.
Baider, Fabienne
In: Journal of French Language Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 1-3, 2020.
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title = {Kerbrat-Orecchioni Catherine (avec la collaboration de Domitille Caillat et Hugues Constantin de Chanay), Le débat Le Pen/Macron du 3 mai 2017 : un débat « disruptif » ? Paris : L’Harmattan, 2019, 313 pp. 978 2 343 16473 1 (broché)},
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Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni, working on political speeches and debates in a pragmatic, rhetorical and interactionist approach, here draws on her undisputed expertise, as well as that of Domitille Caillat and Hugues Constantin de Chanay, in order to answer the question posed in the title of the book: can the debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen on May 3, 2017 be qualified as “disruptive”? Indeed, if the confrontation between the two rounds is, in general, eagerly awaited by the French (Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 2017), this debate was all the more important as a fundamental choice had to be made between two atypical parties: on the one hand he opposed the leader of a movement founded just a year before this debate which claims to be "neither right-wing.
2019
Baider, Fabienne
Double speech act: Negotiating inter-cultural beliefs and intra-cultural hate speech Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 151, no. 5, 2019.
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Baider, Fabienne; Constantinou, Maria
Discours de haine dissimulée, discours alternatifs et contre-discours: Définition, pratiques et propositions Journal Article
In: Semen, 2019.
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abstract = {Elements of definition In July 2019, France by a vote in the National Assembly promulgated a new law to counter hate speech online. Indeed, the increased circulation of such discourses has attracted the attention of institutions, but also researchers from several disciplines (Citron and Norton 2011; Jane 2014; Brown 2009; Assimakopoulos, Baider and Millar 2017; Awan 2014, 2016 ). But what is 'hate speech'? There are several definitions.},
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Elements of definition In July 2019, France by a vote in the National Assembly promulgated a new law to counter hate speech online. Indeed, the increased circulation of such discourses has attracted the attention of institutions, but also researchers from several disciplines (Citron and Norton 2011; Jane 2014; Brown 2009; Assimakopoulos, Baider and Millar 2017; Awan 2014, 2016 ). But what is 'hate speech'? There are several definitions.
Baider, Fabienne
Using modality, achieving ‘modernity’, portraying morality : Marine Le Pen’s (adverbial) stance in interviews Book Chapter
In: pp. 125-147, 2019, ISBN: 9789176350959.
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The ‘dediabolisation’campaign of Marine Le Pen, leader of the Front National since 2011, led to a new perception of her party by both journalists and the public: formerly described as extreme-right, the party is now described as populist, a more neutral qualification. In fact, the party has been described as “modernized/professionalized” in the mainstream press as well as in academic research (Shields 2013; Mayer 2013). Politically, Le Pen’s more flexible approach to many sensitive social issues (abortion, gay marriage, etc.) contrasts with her father’s stances, and even contradicts them: when he denounced civil servants as ‘loafers’, she promoted the need for a welfare state. Like many farright leaders in Europe, the FN leader has therefore opted for a type of ‘newspeak’referring to ‘cultural differentiation’in order to avoid a racially discriminatory tone. On the personal side, she is seen as radically different from her father, and has been described by her enemies as having a better temper, and even as being “simple, reassuring and efficient”(Schneiderman 2011). 1 She has then opted for another FN leader’s ethos and has adopted new discursive strategies (Williams 2011; 1 «Heureux caractère au demeurant, pas de risque de se faire mordre la main dans un mouvement de colère, comme avec le père.[...] La sympathie qu’inspire cette bonne fille au rire franc et spontané.[...] La Chine fait peur. L’Europe ne rassure pas [...] Pour le peuple français anxieux, Marine Le Pen propose sa recette. Simple, réconfortante, efficace.»(Daniel Schneiderman, Libération, 4 avril 2011).
Baider, Fabienne
In: TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2019.
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Write an afterword to an issue so rich in diverse experiences (from introspection relating to fasciapulsology for a better communication with the work of Augendre and Pairon to reflections on the contribution of the theory of relevance in the understanding of emotions and linguistic creativity and the proposals from the domain of de Saussure and Wharton) is a real challenge. I will therefore limit myself to work that relates to my research.
2018
Baider, Fabienne; Todirascu, Amalia
Two subcategories of human names to be defined: status and function names: New approaches in lexical semantics Book Chapter
In: Baider, Fabienne (Ed.): pp. 229-250, De Gruyter, 2018, ISBN: 9783110586169.
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Baider, Fabienne
“Go to hell fucking faggots, may you die!” framing the LGBT subject in online comments Journal Article
In: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 69-92, 2018.
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This paper reports on a manual monitoring of online representations of LGBT persons in the Republic of Cyprus for the period April 2015–February 2016. The article contextualizes the prevalence of “hate speech” in online Greek Cypriot comments against LGBT individuals, and, more generally, against non-heterosexuals. Adopting a Foucauldian position vis-à-vis the social and discursive construction of sexuality, we outline, first, the socio-historical context (Fairclough 1989, 2003) with a focus on LGBT rights in the Republic of Cyprus and the nationalistic project construing sexualities. We then examine the different levels of discursive discrimination practices, providing a snapshot of the types of “hate speech” referring to this topic typically found in such an environment. The focus is on identification of the frames used to construct LGBT identities, and their perception. We use in our title the word subject as defined by post-modernists and by Butler in particular (2009 : iii): subject refers to “a socially produced ‘agent’ and ‘deliberator’ whose agency and thought is made possible by a language that precedes that ‘I’. In this sense the ‘I’ is produced through power. This paper focuses on the socially produced definition of the LGBT community in the context under study. We thus address the way in which sexuality is constructed within a compulsory and hegemonic heterosexuality and heteronormativity. We analyze our data i.e. comments focused on the LGBT community, with corpus linguistic tools (Baker et al. 2008; Brindle 2016) as well as through a qualitative examination of the identified frames. Our analysis confirms an interface between nationalism and compulsory hegemonic heteronormativity in the Republic as well as the influence of the Orthodox Church and its beliefs (Kamenou 2011a, 2011b, 2016).
Baider, Fabienne; Kopytowska, Monika
Narrating hostility, challenging hostile narratives Journal Article
In: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 1-24, 2018.
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Baider, Fabienne
Elsewhere and elsewhere: linguistic markers of textual "rupture" or markers of argumentative continuation? Journal Article
In: SHS Web of Conferences, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 01006, 2018.
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2017
Baider, Fabienne; Kopytowska, Monika
From stereotypes and prejudice to verbal and physical violence: Hate speech in context Journal Article
In: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, vol. 13, no. 2, 2017.
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Baider, Fabienne; Kopytowska, Monika
Conceptualising the Other: Online discourses on the current refugee crisis in Cyprus and in Poland Journal Article
In: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 203-233, 2017.
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Baider, Fabienne; Assimakopoulos, Stavros; Millar, Sharon; López, César Arroyo; Chulitskaya, Tatsiana; Constantinou, Anna; Geyer, Klaus; Grabowski, Łukasz; Kopytowska, Monika; López, Roberto Moreno; Nielsen, Rasmus; Oliviero, Valentina; Petrou, Anastasia; Russo, Ernesto; Muskat, Rebecca Vella; Lindø, Anna Vibeke; Whitaker, Georgia; Woźniak, Julita
Young People’s Perception of Hate Speech Book Chapter
In: pp. 53-85, Springer, Cham, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-319-72603-8.
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Baider, Fabienne; Assimakopoulos, Stavros; Millar, Sharon; Alkiviadou, Natalie; López, César Arroyo; López, Roberto Moreno
Introduction and Background Book Chapter
In: pp. 1-16, Springer, Cham, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-319-72603-8.
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Baider, Fabienne; Assimakopoulos, Stavros; Tempesta, Pablo; Constantinou, Anna; Geyer, Klaus; Grabowski, Łukasz; Ivanou, Uladzislau; Kopytowska, Monika; Millar, Sharon; Nielsen, Rasmus; Petrou, Anastasia; Russo, Ernesto; Muskat, Rebecca Vella; Lindø, Anna Vibeke; Woźniak, Julita
Analysis of Online Comments to News Reports Book Chapter
In: pp. 25-52, Springer, Cham, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-319-72603-8.
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Baider, Fabienne; Assimakopoulos, Stavros; Millar, Sharon
The C.O.N.T.A.C.T. Methodological Approach Book Chapter
In: pp. 17-23, Springer, Cham, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-319-72603-8.
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Online Hate Speech in the European Union: A Discourse-Analytic Perspective Book
Springer Nature, 2017.
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Baider, Fabienne
In: Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 178-204, 2017.
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The aim of this study is to show how trans-national right-wing linguistic strategies and global xenophobic attitudes are reworked at national levels, and how, as a result, specialized country- and culture-specific coercion and legitimization strategies arise. Using a detailed, quantitative-qualitative method of analysis, we look at the Greek Cypriot extreme-right party ELAM to see how the party’s anti-migration rhetoric construes any foreign presence as threat, by proximizing it linguistically as ‘invasion.’ This strategy allows the conflation of the current ‘Other’ (migrants) with archetypical adversaries, such as Turkey. Indeed, anchoring the migration issue in the main national narrative, i.e., the long-standing Cypriot conflict, gives their xenophobic language conceptual coherence and strengthens its textual cohesion. In particular two figures of speech are the basis of this invasion script, the word metanasteftiko ‘the immigration phenomenon’ conceptualized as the kipriako (the Cyprus problem, i.e., the political division of the island). This parallelism opens the way for a number of inferences, while it also enables a conceptual shift from the real phenomenon known as globalization and multiculturalism to the imagined idea of a (white/Western) genocide. Data include comments responding to ELAM followers’ YouTube videos and mainstream press representations. Methodology includes corpus linguistics and discourse analysis focused on the fundamental metaphors found in the data such as migration as unbearable weight and migration as dirt .
Baider, Fabienne
In: Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 178-204, 2017.
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Baider, Fabienne; Kafetzi, Evi
Gender role reversal in political debate?: French politicians’ verbal and para-verbal strategies during the socialist primaries Journal Article
In: Language and Dialogue, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 189-212, 2017.
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Focusing on the Aubry – Hollande debate that took place in the context of the 2011 French socialist party primaries, we observe a possible reversal of gender stereotypes and examine word choices as well as more subtle cues such as interruptions, hedges, etc. If the debate could be described as a stereotypical gender role-reversal, we suggest that these cues point to a more complex picture than a gender reversal, and that the pragmatics structuring the dialogue might be interpreted as a pattern of challenger/champion. Moreover contrasting press articles and comment in online forums on the same debate we invoke a ‘peri-performativity concept’ to explain the differences in interpretations of the politicians’ performances, and conclude that perlocutionary dimensions can be reinterpreted by dominant discourses, (de)/(re)-constructing the performativity of speech acts.
Baider, Fabienne; Kafetzi, Evi
Gender role reversal in political debate? French politicians’ verbal and para-verbal strategies during the socialist primaries Journal Article
In: Language and Dialogue, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 189-212, 2017.
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Baider, Fabienne; Constantinou, Maria
Penelopegate : fake news et retravail d’ethos en ligne lors de la campagne présidentielle de 2017 Journal Article
In: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 9, 2017.
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The French politician François Fillon, for a long time considered the frontrunner in the French presidential campaign, saw his strong position crumble to the third in most of the polls, after the circulation of rumors against him and his family also known as Penelopegate. Such rumors were at the heart of the 2017 French and American presidential campaigns. In fact, the terms post truth, fake news and alternative facts could be seen as symbols of the current information crisis, i.e. the mistrust felt by many readers regarding the media. The present study sets out to investigate the argumentation used to deconstruct and reconstruct François Fillon’s ethos after dissemination of such rumors on social media. Drawing on the theoretical framework developed by Amossy (2014 et al.) and Maingueneau (2004 et al.) on the analysis of self-presentation and in particular on the concepts of (re)branding and scenography, we analyze the discursive strategies deployed by discussants in face management of the French politician’s image. Our data include two different genres (tweets and posts on newspaper forums) and our findings corroborate Amossy’s research (2014) on strategies used in such face work management as denial of responsibility (sympathy), victimization (empathy) or face threats against the opponents (anger). We have also observed the use of a catastrophic scenario (fear), which was not present in Amossy’s data.
Baider, Fabienne; Constantinou, Maria
Europe and the Front National Stance: Shifting the Blame: Doing and Undoing Europe Book Chapter
In: pp. 113-135, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-78714-514-6.
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Baider, Fabienne; Constantinou, Maria
At night we’ll come and find you, traitors: Cybercommunication in the Greek-Cypriot ultra-nationalist space Book Chapter
In: Chapter 12, pp. 413-454, 2017.
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Baider, Fabienne
D’ AILLEURS , point d’orgue dans la stratégie discursive de Marine Le Pen Journal Article
In: La Linguistique, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 87, 2017.
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Baider, Fabienne; Constantinou, Maria
Burn the antifa traitors at the stak: Transnational political cyber-exchanges, proximisation of emotions Book Chapter
In: Chapter 4, pp. 75-102, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.
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2016
Baider, Fabienne; Abbou, Julie
Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins Book
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016, ISBN: 9789027266835.
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Baider, Fabienne; Matar, Nayla; Portes, Cristel; Lancia, Leonardo; Legou, Thierry
Voice Quality and Gender Stereotypes: A Study of Lebanese Women With Reinke's Edema Journal Article
In: Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. S1608 , 2016.
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Purpose: Women with Reinke's edema (RW) report being mistaken for men during telephone conversations. For this reason, their masculine-sounding voices are interesting for the study of gender stereotypes. The study's objective is to verify their complaint and to understand the cues used in gender identification. Method: Using a self-evaluation study, we verified RW's perception of their own voices. We compared the acoustic parameters of vowels produced by 10 RW to those produced by 10 men and 10 women with healthy voices (hereafter referred to as NW) in Lebanese Arabic. We conducted a perception study for the evaluation of RW, healthy men's, and NW voices by naïve listeners. Results: RW self-evaluated their voices as masculine and their gender identities as feminine. The acoustic parameters that distinguish RW from NW voices concern fundamental frequency, spectral slope, harmonicity of the voicing signal, and complexity of the spectral envelope. Naïve listeners very often rate RW as surely masculine. Conclusions: Listeners may rate RW's gender incorrectly. These incorrect gender ratings are correlated with acoustic measures of fundamental frequency and voice quality. Further investigations will reveal the contribution of each of these parameters to gender perception and guide the treatment plan of patients complaining of a gender ambiguous voice.
Baider, Fabienne; Abbou, Julie
Periphery, gender, language: Grammatical and social gender from the margins Book Chapter
In: pp. 1-22, 2016.
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Baider, Fabienne
In: French Studies 70(3): DOI:, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. knw153, 2016.
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Baider, Fabienne; Abbou, Julie
Periphery, Gender, Language: An Introduction Book
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.
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2015
Baider, Fabienne; Constantinou, Maria
Jean-Marie Le Pen vs. Marine Le Pen: a different 'emotional ethos'? Journal Article
In: Study Romanesque Posnaniensia, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 3, 2015.
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This paper examines how the Front National's electoral victories could be explained, partially, in terms of a new discursive rhetoric adopted by Marine Le Pen. In order to compare rhetorical strategies used by both Marine and Jean-Marie Le Pen and their impact on their followers, we use comparable data, which consist of press articles published during the presidential campaigns of each politician and postings by online discussants related to interviews. Using corpus linguistics tools and lexical semantics, we assess how differently both leaders position themselves emotionally and how this emotional positioning is reconstructed within the postings of the viewers. Although no important quantitative difference can be observed in the number of emotion key-words they used respectively, a shift in both politicians' rhetoric positioning can be observed when analyzing the context in which these keywords are embedded. If Jean-Marie Le Pen focuses on negative feelings towards the Other (anger, resentment), Marine Le Pen promotes a positive ethos (empathy) in order to detoxify the image of her party and broaden her electoral base.
Baider, Fabienne; Kounouni, Maria
Language autobiographies, reflective texts, methodological approach Journal Article
In: Language and man: Revue de didactique du français, vol. 50, pp. 59-80, 2015.
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Baider, Fabienne
From the genesis of language to the Internet: variations in forms, modalities and languages in contact Journal Article
In: French Studies, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. knv261, 2015.
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Baider, Fabienne
Presidentiality assessment (at the interface of lexical semantics and corpus linguistics) Journal Article
In: Mots, pp. 103-128, 2015.
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This study is anchored in the theoretical framework proposed by Pierre Cadiot and Yves-Marie Visetti and focuses on the assessment of presidency. Initially, the use of corpus linguistics tools makes it possible to determine, from the most frequent lexical associations with the term presidentiality , the “reasons” for this (competence, legitimacy, etc.). We analyze these reasons quantitatively and qualitatively in data focused on Martine Aubry and François Hollande, during the socialist primary of 2011, in the daily Le Monde.. The notions of semantic preference and prosody are implemented in order to analyze the contexts in which are anchored the statements evaluating the competence, legitimacy, etc., of these two politicians. At the end of our work, we conclude on the importance of taking into account the role of transversality in the evaluative discourse, transversality which refers to the construction "over the texts" of a favorable or unfavorable evaluation of a entity, the proper name taking care of the cumulative effects of the co-occurrences of which it is the object.
Baider, Fabienne; Cislaru, Georgeta; Coffey, Simon
Apprentissage, enseignement et affects Journal Article
In: Le Langage et l'Homme, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 3-6, 2015.
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Baider, Fabienne
Anne-Marie Gingras (dir.), Genre et Politique dans la presse en France et au Canada Journal Article
In: Lectures, 2015, ISBN: 978-2-7605-4128-3.
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The book edited by Anne-Marie Gingras is a first. Indeed, to our knowledge, no publication has focused on the representations of women politicians in order to examine the existence of differences between Canada and France with regard to these representations. The work is divided into two parts guided by a comparative ambition: the first part focuses on the representation of women politicians in France and Canada
Baider, Fabienne; Cislaru, Georgeta; Coffey, Simon
Apprentissage, enseignement et affects, Le Langage et l'Homme L-1 Book
EME & InterCommunications, 2015.
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Baider, Fabienne
Reverse speech? Marine Le Pen and her identity as a language resource Journal Article
In: Nouvelles perspectives en sciences sociales, 2015.
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abstract = {This study takes stock of computerized research analysis of political discourse, and in particular of populist discourse. The perspective adopted is that of the study of the construction of the empathetic identity of Marine Le Pen, in accordance with female stereotypes, and with the objective of precise political positions and in accordance with the fundamentals of the National Front. Computer tools make it possible to detect discursive tendencies by identifying key words such as solidarity, suffering, tendencies which can then be refined by qualitative studies. On the one hand, this work confirms the political performativity of emotions when they conform to gender stereotypes. On the other hand, it attests to the presence of rhetorical peculiarities of an anti-system party (with key notions remaining present over the years) which are adapted to new political conditions (the point of view and the focus are reworked). Thus the intervention style of Marine le Pen would rhetorically switch a discourse focused on resentment, contempt and nostalgia (that of Jean-Marie Le Pen) into a discourse that we analyze as playing on positive emotions, in particular , here, empathy more in line with a feminine ethos.},
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This study takes stock of computerized research analysis of political discourse, and in particular of populist discourse. The perspective adopted is that of the study of the construction of the empathetic identity of Marine Le Pen, in accordance with female stereotypes, and with the objective of precise political positions and in accordance with the fundamentals of the National Front. Computer tools make it possible to detect discursive tendencies by identifying key words such as solidarity, suffering, tendencies which can then be refined by qualitative studies. On the one hand, this work confirms the political performativity of emotions when they conform to gender stereotypes. On the other hand, it attests to the presence of rhetorical peculiarities of an anti-system party (with key notions remaining present over the years) which are adapted to new political conditions (the point of view and the focus are reworked). Thus the intervention style of Marine le Pen would rhetorically switch a discourse focused on resentment, contempt and nostalgia (that of Jean-Marie Le Pen) into a discourse that we analyze as playing on positive emotions, in particular , here, empathy more in line with a feminine ethos.
2014
Baider, Fabienne; Constantinou, Maria
Language of Cyber-Politics: "Imaging/Imagining" Communities Journal Article
In: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 213-243, 2014.
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Assuming that “YouTube provides a deindividuated interactional context where social identity, including ethnic identity, is salient” (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich et al. 2013, our emphasis), we focus our analysis on the online discussants’ identity narratives (i.e. avatars, pseudonyms and comments) in order to investigate what makes each identity narrative into a cohesive specific ethos and how this ethos is coherent with the positioning of the party and their leaders. Our methodology includes qualitative analysis (avatars and pseudonyms) as well as a quantitative approach (comments vs leadership speeches). Our findings confirm that the emotions and ideologies salient in the leadership speeches and keywords are perpetuated, reinvented and re-enacted in avatars, pseudonyms and comments, constructing therefore a coherent virtual community. We also conclude that the ethos of this virtual community was built on the concept of resisting the loss of sovereignty (among other things to resist), symbolically co-constructed with myths, memories and a glorious past, instilling pride and unity, while cultivating anger, resentment and contempt against the “enemy”.
Baider, Fabienne
Hybrid strategic identities as gendered resources in french politics (Martine Aubry and Marine Le Pen) Journal Article
In: Communication Papers, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 91-102, 2014.
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Many researchers such as Sineau (2001), Bertini (2002), Achin et al (2007) have been for years denouncing the “male norm or the male political order” in French politics. They also argue that explanations for such a gendered field should not be based on status differences between men and women but should focus on how dominant relationships differentiate male behavior and female behavior in politics. In this paper, we examine how, in their 2012 presidential campaigns, Martine Aubry (a socialist leader) and Marine Le Pen (an extreme-right party leader) adopted traditionally masculine strategic identities, and how these were portrayed in the French press. Both female politicians were known for their ‘toughness’; however Aubry was noted as being emotional, while Le Pen was seen to emphasize family life. They embodied a ‘femininity with a twist’. In order to examine the reception of such hybrid personas in journalistic discourse, we examine articles published in the French mainstream press, using quantitative and qualitative approaches. We point out the shared and different strategies and conclude on the periperformativity on the part of the newspapers as far as these ‘gender acts’ are concerned.